This weekend is toorcon Seattle. If you know, then you should be there. I, unfortunately, will not be going due to prior engagements (fancy for “I have plans”).
On a semi-related note, Microsoft’s BlueHat is the first week of May.  This means Limo races and other good fun.  Again, I did not plan properly and will [...]

A few things to comment on in the startup world today:

Amazon has narrowed their Startup Challenge down to 7 contestants. If you are not familiar with this challenge, here is a blurb from Amazon:

“Amazon Web Services (AWS) is searching for the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business. [...]

Today I experienced by first Seattle Snow. It is wet, icy, and ends up in a mush on the group.  Snow and rain at the same time is odd to me.  I am still use to the powdery dry snows.  Very odd, I am not sure how it feel about it raining, snowing, and having [...]

Picked up a link from Marcelo Calbucci’s Seattle 2.0 blog on a new Seattle start up today, Instant Journalist. The idea is you can build a “news” site by allowing people to post videos, text entries, and photos to your neighborhood. This is an intersting idea for setting up a community driven [...]

WOW. I was surprised to come across this list, of 200 Seattle startups.
Have to get moving.

I have been living in Seattle for almost a month and here are my thoughts:

Downtown living is great
Being green is easy in this city
It is too cold
Needs more sun
Great arts and local band scene (neither of which I am really into)
A lot of extremely talented technical people

Over all, I am happy with [...]